TagsTagsThe big political news of the day: Rep. Barney Frank has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2012... Frank's press conference is still under way on C-SPAN.
The religious right is making a desperate all-out effort to roll back women's reproductive rights, and a bizarre fetus-worshipping circus took place today in Congress as the fundamentalist loons put on an emotional ultrasound show for the right wingers about to vote on the falsely named "Protect Life Act:" A ...
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White House press secretary Jay Carney says it's a coincidence (nudge, wink): Obama schedules jobs address to coincide with GOP 2012 debate. President Obama has requested a joint session of Congress next week to deliver his jobs speech directly to lawmakers. In a letter to congressional leaders requesting the Sept. 7 ...
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My take on the Peter King hearings: People shouldn't pretend that there are no problems at all with radicalization among Muslims -- clearly, we need to be aware of the extent, and do what we can to defuse it and deal with its causes, while preventing attacks from any fanatics who ...
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Rep. Peter King's controversial hearings on radicalization among American Muslims began this morning. C-SPAN has live video. LGF reader CuriousLurker posted an interesting Page yesterday on King's star witness: Dr. Zuhdi Jasser.
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Stephen Colbert really pissed off the Republicans on Capitol Hill today. I can't recall the last time I saw so many scowling old men. [Video]
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More bad news for right wingers who think ACORN is the very embodiment of evil, as a congressional report totally exonerates them. The controversial community organizing group Acorn has not broken any laws in the last five years, according to a Congressional Research Service report released Tuesday evening. The report, requested ...
Can you say, “massive, overweening chutzpah?” With 14 million Americans still out of work, Congress is seeking $550 million for eight new aircraft that would increase the fleet the Air Force uses to ferry senators and representatives to war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan as well less dangerous locations ...
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To no one’s surprise, the Senate has voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the Supreme Court, making her the third female justice in US history.
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Here’s the list of eligible clunkers, as Congress pumps $2 billion more into the program: Full List Of Disqualified Cars Under Cash For Clunkers Refresh.
Word is just coming across the wires that the Senate Judiciary Panel has approved Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court...
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham now says he’s going to support Sonia Sotomayor. WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’ll vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party’s conservative leaders. The South Carolinian had hinted during Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings that he might back President Barack Obama’s first high ...
Sen. Jeff Sessions (who has no earlobes, by the way) says the GOP won’t block the vote on Sotomayor’s nomination. Shortly before the committee concluded its questioning of Sotomayor, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the panel’s senior GOP member, told Sotomayor he would “look forward to you getting that vote” by ...
As we round the corner into day four of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings, even the Republicans on the committee are beginning to admit that they’ve got nothing. We’ve reached a point, here on Day 4 of the Sonia Sotomayor hearings, where some Republicans have acknowledged that when they sift through ...
The latest Rasmussen poll shows 90% of voters expect Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed. Following the first two days of confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, voters overwhelmingly expect her to be confirmed for the U.S. Supreme Court but remain divided as to whether she should be. Ninety percent (90%) now ...
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Day three of the Sotomayor confirmation hearings has begun; here’s our live feed from Senate.gov, as the Republicans on the panel continue hammering away (a futile endeavor) at the “wise Latina” remark, and try to back Sotomayor into a corner on the abortion issue. [Live video moved to more recent post...] ...
Here’s MSNBC’s video of Lindsey Graham grilling Sonia Sotomayor over her “wise Latina” comment in a speech to Duke University students. [Video]
Andrew Malcolm and associates have been doing a great job of live-blogging the Sotomayor hearing at Top of the Ticket, including posting transcripts of Sen. Jon Kyl’s rambling, digressing, endless questions, which is above and beyond the call of duty: Sotomayor hearings: Graham comes out swinging. Here’s the live video stream ...